My mistake. The view compaction hadn't run properly. I now rerun it for all the views of the database and it's down to 18GB.
Best regards Calle Arnesten On Wed, Sep 11, 2013, at 21:51, Dave Cottlehuber wrote: > It's likely you've not got compression running/set e.g. snappy or similar. > > Any more details? > > On 11 September 2013 21:00, Calle Arnesten <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I replicated the databases of a CouchDB 1.2 server to a brand new CouchDB > > 1.4 server. However, I noticed that the hidden view directories now take up > > about 3 times more space than before. For example on the 1.2 database one > > of the hidden view directories took 30GB and now it takes 90GB. What is the > > reason for this drastic file size increase? Can I change a setting to have > > it behave as 1.2? > > > > I have run view compaction without getting a significant change. > > > > Best regards > > Calle Arnesten
